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Commerce and Industry in Roman Sabratha

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson*
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Magdalen College, Oxford
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Abstract

This article presents evidence for the exploitation of marine resources at Sabratha, including the salting of fish and production of garum, as well as purple dyeing from the Murex shellfish. These activities may in certain periods of the city's history have been of some importance to Sabratha's economic life, alongside the export of olive oil from the city's hinterland. There is evidence also of various minor crafts and service activities of the sort perhaps to be expected in many Roman towns — bakeries, ceramic manufacture, and glass production.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 30 , 1999, pp. 29 - 52
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1999

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